An investigation into the use of no-knock raids — conducted by SWAT officers with machine guns, flash-bang grenades, and body armor — that have time and time again led to avoidable deaths, gruesome injuries, and costly legal settlements.
As a right-wing terrorist cell went on a seven-year killing spree, did authorities look the other way?
A profile of the man who teaches America’s police to be “sheepdogs.”
An investigation into 62 incidents caught on video shows how cops are incentivized to lie — and why they get away with it.
He was a Georgetown-educated Native-American lawyer who’d left behind a career in D.C. to advocate on behalf of poor and minority populations in rural North Carolina. At the time of his 1988 murder, he was investigating ties between police and the local cocaine trade.
The author spent nearly 30 years looking into what really happened.
A minute by minute account of the officers and first responders on the scene of the San Bernadino shooting and the subsequent firefight between police and and the Farooks.
Isaiah Wall wants to get his life on track. But first, he’s gotta buy drugs for the police.
Two officers discovered rampant corruption and criminal activity at the heart of Chicago’s police department. Then they were punished by their peers. A four-part series.
She entered the national spotlight after she live streamed the death of her boyfriend, Philando Castile, who was shot by police during a traffic stop. This is Diamond Reynolds’s life today.
Uncovering Baltimore’s secret aerial surveillance program.
The results can be deadly.
Bryce Masters was 17 years old when a police officer tased him for 23 seconds. His heart stopped for almost eight minutes. His life will never be the same.
The activists fighting for police reform in the wake of a video that showed a black teenager shot 16 times by a white cop.
When cops kill civilians, their union is on hand to defend them. In many cases this has come at the expense of the truth.
Inside New Haven’s Special Victims Unit.
In 1998, a cop named Jon Aujay went for a run in the desert. He never came back. The department decided it was suicide, but that is not the only theory.
Creating a new, clean police force in the Ukraine.
To date, more than 500 people have been killed by police in America. This is the story of one, Charly Keunang.
Secrets, dangers, and murder in a German police state.
"Andreas didn’t know what to say. What he wanted was for her to come and live in the basement of the rectory with him. He could protect her, home-school her, practice English with her, train her as a counsellor for at-risk youth, and be her friend, the way King Lear imagined being friends with Cordelia, following the news of the court from a distance, laughing at who was in, who was out. Maybe in time they’d be a couple, the couple in the basement, leading their own private life."
An epilogue to Serpico.
On the anger that led to the Watts Riots of 1965, the mistakes made during those six days in August, and how little changed afterward.
An exposé of the New York Police Department’s Civilian Complaint Review Board.
The landmark article that changed the way communities were policed:
This wish to "decriminalize" disreputable behavior that "harms no one"- and thus remove the ultimate sanction the police can employ to maintain neighborhood order—is, we think, a mistake. Arresting a single drunk or a single vagrant who has harmed no identifiable person seems unjust, and in a sense it is. But failing to do anything about a score of drunks or a hundred vagrants may destroy an entire community. A particular rule that seems to make sense in the individual case makes no sense when it is made a universal rule and applied to all cases. It makes no sense because it fails to take into account the connection between one broken window left untended and a thousand broken windows.
On the difficulties of holding Oakland’s thin blue line accountable.
Just after midnight, Rye police arrived to bust a house full of partying teenagers. The kids refused to unlock the door, and parents and cops flooded the street. A minute-by-minute account of the standoff.
